Following the completion of their final assignment of the calendar year, on Sunday night local time in Cuttack—where India rallied to a 4-wicket win in the series-decider to edge the three-match One-Day International series 2-1—the West Indies can depart the subcontinent taking heart from their 7:6 win/loss ratio over the last six weeks. WINDIES were able to cop their first ODI series victory in five years, with a 3-0 whitewash of over Afghanistan. And despite the series loss to India, (in the same format) there have been positive signs from Pollard’s men.
There is a saying: ‘there’s a way to lose’—not only the accumulation of losses, in recent times, that has been a bother to Caribbean fans, but what was seen as a lack of fight from the players. And so, fans would have been pleased by the threat the West Indies posed throughout this series. Although finishing on the losing side, the West Indies were by no means swept aside.
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